#he's trying folks

[burberrycanary]

Lost Vocabularies that Might Express (The Memory of These Broken Impressions)

Stucky, Endgame Fix-it, Road Trip Get Together

An expression crosses Bucky’s face like a shadow, tightly controlled and gone fast. But he rolls his head to the side, looking over at Steve, calm and steady, worn by life and changed so much but still here, by this small fire and lit with the unsteady golden glow, under these too many stars. 

“Everywhere I go,” Bucky says, “the past is this pit. But I’ve got to keep it behind me, because if I don’t, I’ll fall in. And someday I’m not going to have the strength to crawl back out. So it’s got to stay behind me, Steve—the big nothing right at the back of my feet.”

Steve stares at his walking-around miracle brought back to him by so much carnage and wretched injustice he’ll never be able to set right, not in all his remaining days. 

Because here’s the truth: he’s never once caught Bucky and every time he’s ended up following, he’s been too late to save him from all this suffering—the war, the future, and the long fall into the cold that came in between.

Honesty is all he has to give, which may just be adding to the burdens of a man doomed to carry a terrible load he can’t put down.

But maybe there’s something in the old paradox: the weight that makes you feel lighter. 

Maybe that’s what loving someone is.

Read Chapter 46 on AO3

Only one more chapter to go—I'm almost done with this! Many thanks to my betas @village-skeptic​​​​​​​​​​​, @booksandabeer​​​​​​​​​​​ and @zenaidamacrouras1​​​​​​​​​​​ 🥰

#stucky #stucky fanfiction #stucky fic #steve rogers #bucky barnes #steve x bucky #stevebucky #stevebucky fic #steve rogers x bucky barnes #steve and bucky #river!verse #lost vocabularies that might express #otp: till the end of the line #otp: even when i had nothing i had you #the existential loneliness of steven g. rogers #bucky barnes needs a hug #steve rogers also needs a hug #steve makes better choices #he's trying folks #the past doesn't go anywhere #love and grief

[thepioden]

Caduceus is old enough to enjoy catnip but doesn't really grok how to partake. His current strategy:

1. Deeply contemplate Drugs.

2. Hit Drugs vigorously with little hands

3. Shout at Snakes as though Soba has some insights, here

4. Repeat steps 1-3

#He's trying folks #caduceus the cat #since posting he has gone back upstairs and is sprinting up and down the hallway

[canisalbus]

gothic lolita machete came to me in a dream

.

#HHWAH #but he unironically kind of makes it work though?? #I never realized that the leap from what he normally wears to gothic lolita would be this small #basically the same thing just a lot more lace and frills and embroidery #loving! the pomegranates! #it always makes me ecstatic when people find a way to include them or his other... symbols? motifs? objects of significance? #it's nice you kept the red gloves and red heels #the little crosses on the capelet and the stockings too hah #and the massive bow where the fascia would go #I support genderfuckery Machete by the way #his design and mannerisms have always been somewhat androgynous or at least that's what I've been trying to aim for #despite his sharp angular form he's supposed to have an aura of elegance and delicateness #at least on his better days when he's not in full rat man mode #given the choice he'd rather be called beautiful than handsome I'm pretty sure #folks have been mistaking him for a goth lesbian a whole lot lately so I can't be too far off #thank you this made me grin like an idiot when I opened the inbox #gift art #aggiepython #own characters #Machete

[ineffectualbookseller]

The way Azirphale is underestimated and practically infantalized by heaven is so closely tied to his femininity and I think we should talk about it more because I just want to shout about how relatable the way he's treated in his workplace is as a woman working in a traditionally male field

It's in all the little niggling comments from your boss about personal things that hold no bearing on your work

and the assumption that what you're doing must be simple if it was assigned to you

your work is trivialized

and you get these the placating smiles when you're told plans and proposals are rejected and passed over

or when your complaints are dismissed

and you get more of the same from upper management

it all feels so frustrating and draining but you're at work so all you can do is take a breathe put on that mask and move on with your day

It is all so deteimental to your emotional well being and textually, so much of this is tied to Aziraphale's softness, his gayness - his femininity

The thing about working in an environment and gives you this feeling - of being simultaneously destrought watching your belief in yourself get chipped away but also just so irate becuase you know you don't deserve it - is how it builds. It sinks under your skin and feeds into this indignant dejection until you can have a moment of release - but Azirphale doesn't get to bitch about it over drinks with friends, he doesn't get a lunch break where he can go for a walk and listen to an angry scandi death metal playlist, he doesn't even get the chance to cry about it in the bathroom for 5 minutes before confronting it again

(And I talked a little bit about it in the tags of this beautiful photoset but this all comes into play whenever Crowley dismisses his plans or calls him an idiot. These are purely emotional reactions; I really don't think Crowley means much by it - he respects Aziraphale's opinion and genuinely thinks he's brilliant - but Crowley is so quick to use this terminology when Aziraphale is making a decision Crowley thinks is wrong and he doesn't know how much this hurts Aziraphale. Just like Aziraphale doesn't understand the true impact the Fall had on Crowley, Crowley doesn't understand the ways heaven has been tearing away at Aziraphale's self worth)

Aziraphale has been facing this constant drip of denigration since before the beginning of time and has never released the pressure valve. At this point, he's a bomb waiting to go off

#(I want to note that I am coming at this from my personal experience as a woman #but I know femme neurodivergent and disabled folks of all genders face these same issues) #along similar lines I have tons of feelings about how often Aziraphale hides his hands when talking to other angels #to hide his stimming #and look I try not to tie everything back to explaning why Aziraphale ended s2 the way he did but apparently I can't #its just the juiciest character moment to me #also thinking about how angry Crowley was at Gabriel when he was treated like this once #granted shut up and die already IS the worst thing Gabriel has said to Aziraphale but if Crowley knew how much of this was going on... #aziraphale #good omens #go2 spoilers #good omens meta #Thanks to folks who responded to my tags on that post because you really motivated me to find these screen caps #and finish this post which has been sitting in my drafts for ages #also sorry so many of gabriels faces are funny I cant help that jon hamm is comedy gold - i refuse to let it undermine my point

[filurig]

goatsss

#oc #original character #ocs #oc art #illustration #digital art #oc artist #pareidolia tag #oc: folke #oc: arvo #HI sorry ive been like. kinda art blocked trying to fight it hard rn #folke has goats now i decided so i had to draw it... #the breeds he owns are like some sort of jämtget #the REALLY big goat is a tomteget (tomte-bred goat breed) ive posted before #its not actually his but gullmar's he jsut keeps it at folke's homestead when not out and about with it #also ermmm dont ask why arvo is on crutches (rubs hands together) #the timeline here doesnt actually make sense for the canon though bcs this is clearly a spring scene but. I wanted to draw a spring scene

[ghost-bxrd]

OK, so you have implied in your previous Fae Dick posts that animals and trees can communicate with him in some fashion. Does that mean that Fae Dick could somehow get a heads up that Jason is crawling out of his grave? Could Fae Dick get to a resurrected Jason faster then the league would?

Ooo, good point!

I’d go with yes, yes Dick would notice. Also I don’t think he’d allow Bruce to bury Jason anywhere but the manor grounds, so that would help.

When Jason wakes up in his grave the entirety of the Wayne estate would startle out of its grief stricken slumber, as imbued as it is with Dick’s fae magic. As such, I think the soil and the roots would also aid Jason in breaking free of his grave, severely reducing whatever brain damage he may suffer from a lack of oxygen.

Meanwhile Dick, who’s out in the streets as Nightwing, would definitely feel a sense of alarm and urgency from his home and immediately turn around to check it out.

And this find Jason right as he pulls himself from the ground.

(Dick doesn’t question it. He’s fae. And questioning miracles is the best way to unmake them and he’d rather sleep in an iron bed than give Jason up again.)

Tim and Bruce would probably suspect that Dick dabbled in some kind of necromancy for a while. Not that Dick does anything to dissuade them of that notion, he’s too busy hissing and spitting at anybody stupid enough to approach Jason without his express permission and feeding him healing plants and roots the forest readily offers to him. 🌳✨

(The manor grounds love Jason ok)

#fae dick grayson #he’s back! #I was mildly disappointed when I didn’t hear from him in over a day #but he’s back now! #how did I get attached so quickly lmao #ok fae dick grayson is viciously protective #nobody is allowed to be near Jason until dick is sure he’s back to 110% health #no more solo flying for this Robin no sir #Jason puts his foot down tho when he tries to leave the manor grounds and there’s a literal wall of trees just blocking him from going #coddling a la fae #dick ain’t losing more family just try him #this fae has gone feral folks #jason todd #batfamily #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batfam #robin #tim drake

[alexiethymia]

If I could gif, I would probably gif three scenes. The ‘what rope’ scene where Vash calls Meryl and Roberto his friends so that the townspeople of Jeonora Rock don’t lynch them, and then the scene where Vash says Meryl and Roberto aren’t his friends to Wolfwood when they separate on the Sand Steamer and Wolfwood calls him cold, and finally the scene where Luida definitively calls Meryl, Roberto, and Wolfwood his friends when he first wakes up.

It’s such a nice progression of his bonds in such a few number of episodes. For all that Vash is a nice guy, and has people he helps, and even family in the form of the people in Home, it’s possible Meryl, Roberto, and Wolfwood are his first friends. It’s only when the three stick by him even after Monev and finding out that he’s a Plant, that it really dawns on him that huh in his hundred years alive, he may have finally found his first friends.

Vash isn’t naive. He knows the capacity of people to betray his trust. He’s resigned to it in a way. But he still extends that trust to people. The plan to stop the Sand Steamer wouldn’t have worked without Meryl. But Vash still leaves the task to her without any assurance that she would do her part. At the same time, I get the feeling that he wouldn’t have blamed her if she did decide to run away, same as Roberto was telling her. And it’s such a wonderful thing that through the friendships he formed with Meryl, Wolfwood, and Roberto, the trust that he freely gives is finally reciprocated. (And of course he would always have faith, what with his experiences with Rem, Luida, Brad and the people in Home).

In the same way, Vash saves what was precious to Wolfwood which was the orphanage, Wolfwood eventually gets to return the favor in saving Meryl. Even though it was out of order, you can also look at it as Meryl saving Vash, who saved Wolfwood at the Sand Steamer, who eventually ends up saving Meryl. Even Roberto, cynical as he is, does end up advising Vash on occasion.

People get hurt. People die. It’s a dangerous world they live in. But it’s nice that Vash who always asks if people ‘need a hand’ eventually meets ordinary people who also ask him if he ‘needs a hand’ sometimes too.

#trigun #trigun stampede #taggin #vashmeryl #because fave always #but really it’s the friendship that gets me #vash eventually comes to trust the three of them #not because of their words but because of their actions #and I guess that’s why I like vashmeryl so much #because of the friendship and trust #I really loved the dynamic of the four of them #rip roberto gone too soon #I really liked the touches of ordinary heroism #like how rosa was trying to help meryl even though the bombs were attaching themselves to her too #or that one julai soldier who made sure he was far away from the others when he was about to blow up #like nebraska jr. too #or how heartbroken that one julai soldier who shot vash was because of his friend #which makes it heartbreaking when they turn away from vash because these are good and decent folk #but survival forces them to be cruel #nicholas wolfwood #roberto de niro

[dandelion-roots]

[ID: a digital drawing of chuuya and dazai from bungou stray dogs. in the main image, dazai is sitting on a metal counter in a nurse's office, his arms behind him to support him and knees spread so that chuuya can clean his wounds. he has bandages and scars on his arms and bare torso and is wearing white pants and white shoes. with a bored expression he says, hurry up. chuuya, who's opening a green bottle and is standing in front of the counter, shouts, wait a fucking minute, asshole, i'm not your damn nurse! in a smaller follow-up panel dazai shouts, you shot me! and chuuya is looking away while sweating and shouting back, you were being a shit. end ID]

the price of engaging in homoeroticism via shooting you 'old friend' THREE FUCKING TIMES more than necessary is, um... *checks notes* having to patch him up five minutes later whilst staring at his bare chest and then having to set his leg, thus literally putting him back on his feet to do his dramatic victory reveal??? this can't be right who wrote this

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #skk #double black #skk fanart #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #dazai osamu #nakahara chuuya #hehe finally finished this sketch #that whole situation is just like. chuuya buddy ull have to stitch him up urself so he doesnt bleed out to death #men engaging in intricate rituals in other to touch each other??? or smt god knows at this point #also dazai's leg isnt set here yet bcs i wasnt gonna draw that contraption in perspective. not tonight #didnt have it in me #this is already more perspective than i usually engage in. but i must grow eventually so im trying some stuff out #i didnt trans dazai in this one alas. next time folks i do love drawing top surgery scars a la whimsical star shapes #i did get to draw scars tho! i love drawing scars. didnt do it strategically here bcs i didnt feel like it but #it was fun!! #anyway g'night everyone i must go down under the sleepy eepy spell

[lunee-bat]

Guess what I had art block and made a kid for my notp and now the art block’s fixed and I got a free au out of it

(there’s more weird art under the cut)

Common whizbang w

She’s a cervitaur bc I’m embracing the cringe and thought Lucifer’s wack genetics would meet up with Alastor’s and remember Charlie’s and say “let’s square the hooves on this one!!” so here we are

Anyway,,,enemies to coparents shenanigans,,

They’re trying their best

I promise,,

#hazbin hotel #alastor #lucifer morningstar #and kind of #platonic radioapple #??? #barely #but i think the platonic radioapple folks might like this #so i’m trying that tag #idk in my works alastor’s aroace and nonamorous #and lucifer’s anybodybutalastorsexual/romantic #but they’re smashed together by some magic accident that made this baby happen #so platonic radioapple’s the closest tag ig #idk helpp I’m the new kid here #oh also #alastor hates that number 2 dad mug #lucifer made it for him and he’s only using it bc the baby broke the oh deer mug #i almost lost my duolingo streak bc i was so invested in typing out all this lore last night #nope #didn’t think of a name for the baby by the end of typing this #it’ll come to me just you wait guys

[bisaster-energy]

#only meme im making i promise #or is it 👁️👁️ #misha collins #schrodinger's bi #the situations he gets himself into are very funny to me personally #wb trying to do everyone a solid real ones for that #it's all jokes folks

[burberrycanary]

Lost Vocabularies that Might Express (The Memory of These Broken Impressions)

Stucky, Endgame Fix-it, Road Trip Get Together

They waste a lot of water and kiss, fooling around until the hot water tank gets tired of their shenanigans and gives out.

Standing on the linoleum floor, Steve shoves a towel at Bucky, who he gallantly saved from the cold water blast.

“Still taking hits for your guys in the field,” Bucky says, trying for a droll expression he’s too giddy to creditably manage.

The bathroom is small enough there isn’t one single stretch of bare wall he can back Bucky up against: an unfortunate oversight. So he settles for cupping his palm around the back of Bucky’s neck, sliding his fingers into the damp hair where drops of water are gathering, and kissing Bucky as soft and slow and devastating as he knows how.

“Guy,” he corrects. “You’re my guy. Person. Human being.” 

Several jokes visibly occur to Bucky—and, yeah, the universe is so much bigger and stranger than either of them knew as those two kids from Brooklyn.

But all Bucky does is stare back for a long time in this warm tiny room, where steam has obscured every possible mirrored surface, before he leans in for a light brush of a kiss. 

“Yeah, okay,” he says, quietly. 

Read Chapter 45 on AO3

Only two more chapters to go! Many thanks to my betas @village-skeptic​​​​​​​​​​​, @booksandabeer​​​​​​​​​​​ and @zenaidamacrouras1​​​​​​​​​​​ 🥰

#stucky #stevebucky #steve and bucky #stucky fic #stucky fanfiction #steve x bucky #stevebucky fic #stevebucky fanfic #steve rogers #bucky barnes #river!verse #lost vocabularies that might express #otp: till the end of the line #otp: even when i had nothing i had you #the existential loneliness of steven g. rogers #bucky barnes needs a hug #steve makes better choices #he's trying folks #the past doesn't go anywhere

[berrybanana-arts]

Inspired by this post I reblogged the other day! I’ve not drawn Fiddleford before but this was fun!

Sorry, there mayyyyy be a lack of art for a little while! Not sure if anyone saw but the eager eyed amongst you who checked out our Carrd mayyy have noticed that I and @mysteryhackin released an interest check for a zine we’re working on! ;)))) (@gf-seasons-zine for anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about! Please fill out our interest check and reblog if you haven’t already!)

All of my spare art time is currently going on graphics and planning the budget so we can deliver you the best zine ever! <3

Thank you VERY much to those who nominated me as an artist though! I was super touched 🥺💕

-Berry

#blog #diary #art #he’s a hypocrite but he’s trying to look after ford #bless #gravity falls #stanford pines #ford pines #bill cipher #forduary2024 #Fiddleford #Forduary 2024 #forduary #fiddleford mcgucket #researcher ford #berry gf art #berrybanana #fanzine #tag as you see it folks!

[general-cyno]

never moving on from the wano zolu hug I fear bc truly. luffy spent the entirety of WCI without zoro and part of the straw hats, went through a lot during said arc, and not only is zoro the first one he bumps into after arriving - the sheer happiness radiating from him as soon as he spots zoro in the distance is so heartfelt. he was so happy he literally detoured from what he was doing momentarily and jumped straight into zoro's arms. "it's been forever" nevermind that they've been apart for way longer. I just know luffy missed zoro like crazy.

#sorry I just saw the scene again in passing on twt and now I'm Emotional #it's that kind of night today folks (thinking abt how much luffy cherishes zoro) #zolu #one piece #tp #remember when he was trying to rescue ace from impel down and it was ZORO that bon turned into #how luffy smiled so WIDE when he thought zoro was there and outright said he was disappointed when it turned out he wasn't #in my mind rent free

[dolotonglo]

haha they're sooo in love. a thousand miles. do u get it? hahah ha do you get it? do you ge

#btw i did listen to a thousand miles by vanessa carlton while making this #i do think phoenix would listen to music like this #and then try to serenade miles with it (he fails) #its okay though we love him anyways #look at that folks! another one #im on a roll 2day damn #ideas just be flowing #ace attorney #wrightworth #narumitsu #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #dolotalks

[twistedappletree]

Just had an ‘accidental time travel’ thought where Jin Ling and Lan Sizhui suddenly wake up in present-day China but find out it’s only them who got sent to the future

and while LSZ keeps calm and lowkey gets excited about all the new things around him, JL straight up has a mental breakdown in public and all everyone sees is some weird kid dressed in ancient clothes, strapped up with a bow and sword and curled up in a ball in the middle of the street while screaming and sobbing for his “jiujiu”

#LSZ fluttering around trying to comfort him while also trying to tell everyone around them that he’s fine #everything’s fine nothing to see here folks ajdhaAHDVAJD #mdzs #the untamed #jin ling #lan sizhui #zhuiling #mo dao zu shi #mdzs modern au #mdzs headcanons #mdzs thoughts #apple babble 🍎 #fic ideas #mayhaps #jin rulan #lan yuan #a yuan #mdzs juniors #I think they would find Jingyi eating street food chicken in a back alley eventually #bc let’s face it we can’t leave Jingyi out of this he’d be way too funny in this situation lmaoooo #OMG WAIT ADDING ANOTHER TAG THOUGHT #JL manically shooting off his flairs but instead of JC the cops show up ajshahAJDHAJHD #poor LSZ is losing his mind like P L S STOP #flares**** not going back to fix that lmaooo

[cowboy-caboodles]

just a few quick doodles from class periods featuring the gayest scene in newsies aka once and for all

#newsies #character art #livesies #davey jacobs #jack kelly #newsies art #javey newsies #everyone is so tired of them #i’m so tired of them #just kidding #i am never tired of them #they own half of my procreate #stay warm folks #it’s freezing outside #my favorite thing about ben fankhauser’s davey #is the amount of loving gazes he cast at Jack in the proshoot #like you’re gonna tell me davey doesn’t kiss boys? #nice try loser